The book enhances our understanding of the value of the natural systems that surround us and can play an essential role in encouraging greater efforts to protect the earth's basic life-support systems before it is too late.

The book enhances our understanding of the value of the natural systems that surround us and can play an essential role in encouraging greater efforts to protect the earth's basic life-support systems before it is too late.

Ellie Whitney grew up in New York City, was educated at Harvard and Washington universities, and has lived in Tallahassee since 1970.

The book concludes by focusing on major policy challenges that need to be overcome in order to avert the worsening problem of ecological scarcity and how we can fund novel financing mechanisms for global conservation.

The book provides a more synthetic, more critical, and broader analysis of multiple stable states in natural ecosystems than any previous review.

Ecosystems as Natural Assets explores this literature and related modeling to show explicitly how the concept of ecosystems as natural assets translates into the traditional natural capital approach of resource economics.

This book presents an up-to-date review of the ecology of yeast communities in natural ecosystems.

This book provides a broad and synthetic critique of recent advances in theory and new experimental evidence.